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Its a muzzle brake...

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November 28, 2017, 01:25 PM
David W
Its a muzzle brake...
not break, take a note Roll Eyes


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November 28, 2017, 02:34 PM
RichardC
Yeah, that's so annoying, give us a brake, guys, would ya?


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November 28, 2017, 02:53 PM
mindustrial
I here you, it's right up their with partridge sights.
November 28, 2017, 04:20 PM
David W
quote:
Originally posted by RichardC:
Yeah, that's so annoying, give us a brake, guys, would ya?


Haha, I see what ya did their Wink


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November 28, 2017, 05:04 PM
Sailor1911
Brake Check!




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November 28, 2017, 05:16 PM
Ryanp225
What if I wanted to put a muzzle break on my brake-action side by side?
What then?!
Wink
November 28, 2017, 06:22 PM
Sgt Neutron
Muzzle Brake:


Muzzle Break:

November 28, 2017, 07:23 PM
Bisleyblackhawk
Muzzle beak...




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November 29, 2017, 10:30 AM
Jus228
LOL Big Grin


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November 29, 2017, 10:50 AM
rduckwor
I hate to brake it to you, but the vast majority will keep on using break. You'll never brake them of the habit.

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November 29, 2017, 10:56 AM
RogueJSK
When I got finished with the final fitment of the furniture I was going to run on that new rifle that I had a buddy sale too me, I decided to through on a muzzle break to, and walla - It was compleat.
November 29, 2017, 12:48 PM
SBrooks
quote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
When I got finished with the final fitment of the furniture I was going to run on that new rifle that I had a buddy sale too me, I decided to through on a muzzle break to, and walla - It was compleat.


That's actually painful to read...


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November 29, 2017, 01:06 PM
senza nome
quote:
Its ...
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November 30, 2017, 09:38 PM
cas
Brake, a mechanical device used to stop motion.

Break, to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments. Just what it does to the escaping gas at the muzzle.

So why is it wrong?


IIRC both come from the same word, breken.

Just another one of those things, like belittling people for calling it a magazine and not a clip. Roll Eyes
Or "it's a suppressor, not a silencer." (someone go back in time and tell Hiram Maxim he was wrong.) Wink


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November 30, 2017, 09:50 PM
sigfreund
quote:
Originally posted by cas:
Brake, a mechanical device used to stop motion.


That is what a muzzle brake is intended to do: stop (or slow) the rearward motion of the gun. Although it may break up the discharge gases as well, that’s not why we use them.

As for “silencer,” that’s the legal term for the devices, so that’s why I use it occasionally. Why HM called them that despite surely knowing that they didn’t always silence the sound of a gunshot, he was an entrepreneur, was he not, and don’t entrepreneurs sometimes exaggerate the characteristics of their products? Wink




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November 30, 2017, 10:32 PM
djpaintles
Pedantry is less important than people knowing what you are saying. Study a little linguistics and you'll discover that spelling and pronunciation varies quite a bit over time (especially in English!). What's most important is to simply be understood.

Try correctly pronouncing "SAKO" in Oklahoma and they will have NO idea what you are talking about. Pronounce it like "Seiko" as in the watches and you'll be understood.

Brake is the currently correct spelling in English but give it a few years and who knows what will happen! :-D


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December 01, 2017, 03:20 PM
David W
quote:
Originally posted by senza nome:
quote:
Its ...
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tou·ché, I'm lazy.


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December 01, 2017, 03:22 PM
arfmel
quote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
When I got finished with the final fitment of the furniture I was going to run on that new rifle that I had a buddy sale too me, I decided to through on a muzzle break to, and walla - It was compleat.


How did it preform?